Chris: > In connection to the discussions regarding Politics and stuff that has been > going on here lately I thought I'd ask a question, forgive me if this had > been asked and discussed to the end before, but: From a MOQ perspective, > what is the goal of politics? I mean, what would a MOQist say that politics > should strive for? The Goal then, not why it's there, that's quite obvious, > but the goal.
Good question. My answer is precisely the same as Pirsig's: "My personal feeling is that this is how any further improvement of the world will be done: by individuals making Quality decisions and that's all. God, I don't want to have any more enthusiasm for big programs full of social planning for big masses of people that leave individual Quality out. These can be left alone for a while. There's a place for them but they've got to be built on a foundation of Quality within the individuals involved. We've had that individual Quality in the past, exploited it as a natural resource without knowing it, and now it's just about depleted. Everyone's just about out of gumption. And I think it's about time to return to the rebuilding of this American resource -- individual worth." -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance In other words, the goal of politics is to encourage individualism. That's all. Regards, Platt Platt, If I may add, that individualism by itself does not focus on the society That produces it, in fact Individualism by itself promotes a type of psychosis, I think what Pirsig means is investment Of the individual in Their society, that they care and contribute to it not leave it in The dust to pursue individual goals which may or may not include society At least not purposely. -Ron Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
